Reshaping the frontier landscape : : Dongchuan in eighteenth-century southwest China / / by Fei Huang.

• Superior document: Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; Volume 10
• VerfasserIn: Huang, Fei (Historian),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900. Volume 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 pages).

In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China , Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier -- Paving the Way -- Valley and Mountain -- The Walled City -- Ten Views -- Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool -- Two Wenchang Temples -- Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women -- The New Mansions -- Conclusion.